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  • Love, love this track.

    Robby East - Exomoon - YouTube

    → 8:45 PM, May 4
  • Enjoying the 4x3 word association game. 4 groups of 3, except 1 word is common to all groups. Took a little while to get how to play but enjoying it in addition to a few others.

    → 11:34 AM, Apr 26
  • I Love You More Than Anything, but I Would Rather Die Than Talk to You on the Phone - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

    Yes.

    → 6:33 PM, Apr 25
  • How I Learned About Great Literature from Comic Books

    Don’t underestimate the long term impact of childhood exposure. A recent Gallup poll confirms that Americans are reading fewer books nowadays. And it isn’t hard to grasp why that’s the case in our screen-dominated culture. The pattern is set early in life.

    To go with the previous link. I never read comics and wonder if now is too late. Is now too late?

    → 7:02 AM, Apr 21
  • Let Students Speak Books: Simple Ideas for a Shared Reading Community – Pernille Ripp

    Image that reads: An adult-centered reding community is an artificial one at length for students. It has an expiration date that lines up with when the adult says goodbye.
    → 6:35 AM, Apr 21
  • Less Doing. More Quitting. - by Flavia Sekles

    → 6:31 AM, Apr 21
  • Less Doing. More Quitting. - by Flavia Sekles

    → 6:31 AM, Apr 21
  • Jodie Harsh - Kiss It Better (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

    Loving this. Summer is coming! Obviously, love the name too.

    → 9:15 AM, Apr 19
  • Creepiness is a function of deviation from expected normality. Obviously, this looks like a bell curve, or, to make the point make more sense visually, the Uncanny Valley.

    What makes something creepy? - by Jessica Hagy

    → 8:05 AM, Apr 19
  • Replying ‘Haha So True!’ to Every Meme Your Friend Sends: An Experimental Study in Preserving Social Bonds with Minimum Effort - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology

    Haha so true

    → 8:57 AM, Apr 12
  • The accidental Shrimper: American student becomes Southend fan after boarding wrong boat | Southend | The Guardian

    Ha!

    → 8:55 AM, Apr 12
  • Murderbot — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube

    !!

    → 8:44 PM, Apr 10
  • If this isn’t terrifying.

    The average college student today - by Hilarius Bookbinder

    → 8:27 AM, Mar 30
  • This list of thoughts is amazing.

    wisdom/wisdom.md at master · merlinmann/wisdom · GitHub

    → 6:44 PM, Mar 20
  • After a track from this popping up on the The Morning After mix I just posted, I’ve decided to put this on. Sigur Ros' () from 2002. Apple Music link

    A black abstract symbol resembling curved shapes is set against a white background. The cover of Sigur Ros' - () album.
    → 9:23 PM, Mar 18
  • 10 Counterintuitive Wins Regarding Growing Humans. (Substack)

    Loved these.

    A graph illustrates the relationship between trust and noise, with "Freedom" representing trust and "Fear" representing quietness.
    → 8:54 PM, Mar 15
  • Sure, there’s a difference between writing a poem and cleaning up a garbled email, between writing a love letter and a Google ad. For some tasks, employing the use of an A.I. assistant might save time without levying a commensurate cost in humanity. Maybe.

    A Word Against Writing with Robots Margaret Renkl

    → 3:04 PM, Mar 15
  • After yesterday, I picked this Charlotte De Witte mix on Apple Music. Which they describe as ‘ravey-techno’. No idea honestly, but I’m on board for it. Stand out track is De Witte’s Fourth Dimension.

    → 8:02 PM, Mar 11
  • Flickr Nostaliga

    “A Missouri college student is crate-digging through Flickr for early 2000s nostalgia, reposting it on Instagram for a new audience”

    https://www.instagram.com/tvwishes/

    Wow. This is nostalgic. Guess, I’ll start posting some of my old Flickr photos soon. I guess I started around 2004, I think. I think my first photos on Flickr were scans of photos of a holiday in Mauritius.

    via waxy.org

    → 12:58 PM, Feb 19
  • Rain dances can be satisfying. They feel important and active in the moment, and give you all sorts of little details to tweak and adjust. But ultimately, if your goal is to reap a rich harvest, there’s no avoiding the necessity to get down among your crops, sweat on your brow, and actually work the land.

    I think about this a lot at school. Everyone is so busy, at their computers, but I never feel that’s the best thing.

    Productivity Rain Dances - Cal Newport

    → 8:59 PM, Feb 18
  • Still not 100%, but obviously was in school. Thankfully Friday isn’t our busiest day. Came home with headache, so have been sat in bed watching Crown my Run. Which POV Parkrun commentaries, and honestly as someone who hates running has made me want to run.

    → 9:24 PM, Feb 14
  • “My second grader learned calculus on his own. Why aren’t schools like this??!”

    It Is Fun to Pretend That Hard Things Are Easy!

    → 9:06 AM, Feb 13
  • Give Thanks, Give Praise · Young Franco · General Levy · Tommy Villiers

    ❤️ this. #jungle

    → 6:25 PM, Feb 12
  • WikiTok

    Scroll like TikTok but it’s Wikipedia articles.

    → 5:43 PM, Feb 10
  • My week in media

    • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 📚 - I did not realise it was romance in addition to fantasy but I’ve started now, and it’s the holidays so I plan to keep going。
    • I have bought a new copy of House of Leaves and it’s sat there judging me for not starting but I need to be in the right frame of mind.📚
    • Sultan and Shephard - Loving their music. This mix is a nice place to start. 💿
    • I’ve enjoyed Teach Sleep Repeat for being very relatable about how I feel about teaching at the moment. It’s often too much. It’s that thing of there not being enough time and always feeling rushed about everything. That i am always thinking about work-life balance too. So ultimately feeling like I could be doing better (father, husband, teacher) but I’m not.
    • Mannequin Pussy on KEXP Her voice. ❤️ 🎤
    • KAOS on Netflix. Lyra and I really enjoyed this Greek Mythology in the present world show. We made time to watch it, which as two time-poor people tells you something. Funny but so dark in places. Jeff Goldblum as Zeus was great. 📺
    • The Wild Robot - All 4 of us loved this tale of a robot washed up on an island, laugh out loud funny in places. I cried twice. They definitely said “On your left” at one point too, which tickled me. 🎬
    → 10:29 AM, Sep 30
  • I think for those of us of a certain age who remember when these dance tracks came out, the orchestral element is perfect. This show from Auckland is awesome.

    SYNTHONY - World Premiere - Full Length Show - YouTube

    → 9:09 AM, Apr 28
  • Advice for Teachers, Policymakers, and Donors | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    I only read the advice for teachers but I liked the three suggestions. Even if I struggle with the speaking out part.

    → 8:47 PM, Apr 25
  • My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack - McSweeney’s

    → 9:45 AM, Apr 21
  • DeVotchKa - How It Ends (Live on KEXP)

    → 9:15 PM, Apr 19
  • Huush

    Huush - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube

    No idea what inspired me to click this link from KEXP’s YouTube channel. I follow it but rarely click anything honestly. Occasionally I’ll go back to one of Kae Tempest’s or IDLES videos. I don’t know why I did, but I’m glad I did. They are described as deciding to…

    make a lot of noise with this new électro rock project. They warn us again, freedom will be total, punks are in the house ! Drums thump hard, guitar oscillates between technoid arpeggios and saturated sound, while the synthetic bass underpins powerful beats.

    And I’m on board for that. There’s only a single song on Apple Music so I’ve been playing this short set on repeat in the meantime.

    → 7:44 AM, Mar 9
  • To love. Some say it’s what makes us human. That it defines our existence. But it’s not without risk. Love teaches us about pain, heartbreak, and resilience. It encourages us to do the small things that make a big difference. Love shapes our days, weeks, months… Our years. Because the act of devotion eventually reveals a path to fulfillment we can’t find anywhere else. From its Latin roots, the word Amateur simply means “To Love.” In running, we are all amateurs.

    The Year of the Amateur | Tracksmith

    Love this video but I just can’t do running.

    → 9:07 PM, Jan 29
  • Ha! I haven’t watched BCS but this made me chuckle, comments are good too!

    New promo images for “BREAKING BAD”, the sequel to Better Call Saul. Premiering just 1 week after the finale. Any thoughts? : r/okbuddychicanery

    → 1:50 PM, Aug 13
  • Your water is haunted by the ghosts of other people. All the other people.

    Things I haven’t thought about before. Where has your water been?

    nobody really buys a drink, they just rent it

    10 kinds of spooky stuff in your water - by Jessica Hagy

    → 9:40 AM, Aug 6
  • reciprocal virtues

    The happiest older people I’ve ever seen are hanging out with each other. The crankiest ones seem to be quite solitary. Here are the ten reciprocal virtues I’ve gleaned via some sloppy ethnography (i.e.: eavesdropping) on giggling and gray coffee clutches.

    jessicahagy.substack.com

    → 12:47 PM, Aug 1
  • A nice reminder for parents.

    You think you’ve got your act together, then you have kids. You think you’re someone with a good handle on their emotions…then toddlers and teenagers alike disabuse you of this notion. Because that’s what kids do, they stress test us,

    It’s So Hard - The Daily Dad

    → 10:15 PM, Jul 22
  • For example:

    If I wake up and check messages and social media … would I like to spend that time in meditation and journaling instead?

    Source: We’re Always Training Something - zen habits zen habits

    → 8:22 AM, Jul 22
  • 21 Spooky Triangles Where Things Get Lost - by Jessica Hagy

    → 10:49 AM, Jul 16
  • Why we need to recognise the power of teacher expectations - Tes Magazine

    → 8:37 AM, Jul 11
  • Ask. Our need for help is simply not obvious to others, so make it clear that you want help. Do you hate to ask for help? — Aaron Bieber -

    → 9:34 PM, May 25
  • Everything in your life has a tiny string tugging at your attention.

    I like this way of thinking about minimalism.

    The case for minimalism

    → 6:46 PM, May 11
  • Guilt Won’t Help – Daily Dad

    This job is hard enough. You are flawed enough. You have screwed up and will screw up enough. We don’t have room or time or the luxury for guilt. We have to focus on right now.

    → 9:08 PM, May 7
  • We’re Living in the Golden Age of Competitive M&M Stacking

    → 8:57 AM, May 7
  • BeBold101 - Nicholas Bate

    → 9:32 PM, Apr 29
  • The act of drawing something has a “massive” benefit for memory compared with writing it down – Research Digest

    → 6:04 PM, Apr 22
  • Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
    Swedish proverb.

    What joy or sorrow have you been keeping to yourself? Who can you share it with?
    Source: Shared joy, shared sorrow – Mike Crittenden

    Got this thought stuck in my head.

    → 9:48 AM, Apr 22
  • The Case Against Homework - Alfie Kohn

    → 9:03 AM, Apr 17
  • 5 Nice Things

    Kottke just linked to this post titled An Easy Way To Practise Gratitude which is about a game where you simply name 5 nice things in your life. The rules are ‘don’t overthink it, and be specific.’

    It ties in nicely for me with something I do about noticing nice things in my life, which I got from this Kurt Vonnegut quote

    Anyway, here are mine…

    1. The security guard at school said good morning in English to me yesterday. Normally they would greet us in Chinese but he’s obviously been practising. Even though I had my headphones in it made me smile. Going against my normal programming I shared it in a school chat group and it turns out other people had noticed too. It made me feel a little more connected with people at school/work and I’m glad I shared it.

    2. A teacher’s friend is doing takeaway food from his flat. Yesterday he did bbq chicken with chips, peas and coldslaw and it was amazing. We ate it with a few friends and I had a couple of drinks and didn’t even get too annoyed with the kids!

    3. It’s the weekend and Lyra and I are going on a date tonight while the grandparents babysit. Curry and cocktails. I think I might get my hair cut today aswell. “My hair is long because I haven’t had the time to have it cut.”

    4. It’s the morning, Lyra and Yumo are asleep. I’m having coffee and Elise is getting some screentime. No one is crying or angry and it’s a very pleasant start to Saturday morning.

    5. The Apple photo widget has such a noticeable, positive impact on my life. Opening my phone to old photos of my wife, kids and family is just THE BEST.

    → 9:05 AM, Oct 31
  • Welcome back for the 2020 school year! [A letter from your local superintendent and school board]

    Welcome back for the 2020 school year! We are incredibly delighted to have our children and educators back in school again, particularly after such a challenging spring and summer. We couldn’t be more excited to see your kids’ smiling faces back in our classrooms!

    As you know, some things will be different this fall. We wanted to share a few things for us all to think about over the next few months…

    First, some of our children and families probably will become very ill.

    Link

    → 8:11 AM, Aug 4
  • If you haven’t seen it, this video of Alanis Morrisette performing via the internet while holding her daughter is de-lightful. Link

    → 10:35 PM, Aug 1
  • 3 Links

    I keep meaning to post things I like but I normally end up sending various links to different people.

    Via Metafilter

    • The Hu - A Mongolian folk metal band. We’ve been liking their stuff since I started playing it yesterday. Especially Wolf Totem
    • This stop motion short about a trans kid coming out featuring Godzilla. via

    Also

    • This John Hamm voiced meeting of a father and his daughter’s boyfriend that flips it a little. I’m not going to lie that this isn’t something I’ve thought about. via this inbox zine
    → 8:11 AM, Jul 9
  • What Social Distancing Looks Like Across the World - What Social Distance Looks Like Across the World. A compilation of user-submittted videos put together. “these intimate moments create a synchronicity of humanity”

    → 2:11 PM, Apr 27
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